Those larger buttons are for the Retina display, so that it looks good, at the same size.

It is impossible for Windows to use the Retina display because you need an operating system that supports it (which I believe is only Mac OSX Mountain Lion), and you need a monitor or display that supports it, and those are only sold by Apple, in their Macs.

Eduan wrote:Those larger buttons are for the Retina display, so that it looks good, at the same size.

It is impossible for Windows to use the Retina display because you need an operating system that supports it (which I believe is only Mac OSX Mountain Lion), and you need a monitor or display that supports it, and those are only sold by Apple, in their Macs.

Does that answer your question? Or did I misunderstand it?

- Eduan

The point of my question was that the buttons etc. are quite small in Sublime Text 2, so I'd like them to be bigger and easier to see.

I understand that the controls must be small by default because most users probably use (relatively) low resolution displays where there's never enough space, but with larger displays it isn't that critical to minimize the amount of space buttons use.

Eduan wrote:It is impossible for Windows to use the Retina display because you need an operating system that supports it (which I believe is only Mac OSX Mountain Lion), and you need a monitor or display that supports it, and those are only sold by Apple, in their Macs.

That is not correct, Windows is a DPI-aware since XP, which is much longer than Apple and its retina trend.You can enable high pixel-ratios such as 1.25, 1.50... and any value of your choice in the "Appearance" settings, and even it is not convenient, this works without a big screen.

Now retina-screens trend is there, and hardware begin to rollout, more and more websites adapt to high picelRatios, and applications should do the same.Windows offers tools to tell applications if the dpi setting is >1 or not, but ST just ignore it...

I don't have a MBP retina, but an ASUS UX32 Zenbook which offers a full-HD resolution into a 13" screen (165ppi), making the machine quite unusable without HiDPI setting. So whilst waiting for a bugfix (or new feature, call it what you want), I've created a HiDPI "forced" theme (derivated from Soda), which works quite well on HiDPI screens.

Sorry for the necro, but I just got my hands on a Kirabook (13" with 2560x1440 native resolution, 197ppi). Not using a high DPI setting makes the computer completely unusable. I've seen support for high-DPI displays in Sublime on a mac though, so I'm hoping some effort could be put into porting it to Windows.